Abstract
The objective of this paper is to report on Ernest Wilimowski’s extraordinary sports career, with particular emphasis on the interwar period, when he was the biggest star of the Polish national football team. Analysis of the press corpus was applied as the basic study technique. Ernest Wilimowski was b orn in 1916 in Katowice, in the territory of the German Reich. In 1922, Katowice and a part of Upper Silesia were incorporated into Poland. He won league games four times with the Ruch Wielkie Hajduki club. He made his debut on the Polish national team as a 17-year-old. He played on it until the end of August 1939. In 22 matches, he scored 21 goals. During the Nazi occupation, he acted as a native German. On June 1, 1941, he made his debut on the German national team. He played for the team of the Third Reich 8 times and scored 13 goals. He felt and acted like a sports star. His modern approach to football did not match the idea of amateurism that was mainstream in this period. For him, most important were the benefi ts that could be gained from the game of football.
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